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Topic: Faucet and line maintenance schedule (Read 4070 times)

What do you guys do to maintain your draft systems? BLC after every keg? How often do you take apart and clean the faucets? I've had my kegerator for 4 or 5 months now and am wondering how best to take care of it.

My draft tower has 6 Ventmatics. I take the faucets apart . . let's see . . once every . . . . well . . once. That was after being in service for two years. I found them clean as a pin and did it primarily to check the seals. I do flush the lines/ faucets after every two kegs with a hot solution of Oxi-Clean and let it stand in the lines for about 15 minutes. I follow that with a hot flush of water. then a flush of BLC, let stand for 10 minutes, then a thorough cold flush of water. Whole process takes about 30 minutes.(for all 6) I use a 3 gallon cornie for my solutions and water and a small pancake air compressor I picked up from Harbor Freight for $38.00 with braided gas line hose, a quick connect on one end, and a ball lock "Gas In" connector on the other to push it.

I run Iodophor through the lines and faucets after each keg but have yet to take apart the faucets (forward seal perlicks). I haven't run into any problems yet (but I've only had my kegerator up and running for about a year).